Rocking-chair.



PATENTEDJULY'ILI, 1908.

A. WANNER, JR; ROCKING CHAIR. APPLI'OATION FILED MAR, 25, 1907.

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ALBERT WANNER, JR., OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

ROCKING-CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14, 1908.

Application filed March25, 1907 Serial No. 364,237.

.of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

In the manufacture of the simpler ty es of chairs, such as bent-wood chairs, the-backand-back-leg structure, the seat, the front legs and the leg brace are usually made and shipped separately to be afterwards assembled at the place of ultimate distribution to the trade. It of course complicates this operation and makes it more expensive and otherwise hazardous in point of economy to be compelled to take into consideration special types of chairs, such as rocking chairs, since the demand for them is of more or less unstable character and a quantity of rocking chairs made up according to one style is frequently without a market ,a'short time thereafter, owing to a change in style.

My invention has for its object, among other things, to provide a simple rocker structure which maybe acked in compact form and be readily assem led with the backand-back-leg structure of any ordinary chair of the straight kind without the use of other means than screws or the like to hold the parts together and which will impart to the whole chair structure great strength and durability. My invention makes it possible to avoid the loss attending making up complete rocking chairs suited in style to straight chairs and substantially every part of each of which is adapted only for every other part; the manufacturer may make up any desired quantity of the component parts of plain or straight chairs and of the rocker structures and as rocking chairs are called for the back-and-back-leg structures may be combined with the rocker structures to form rocking chairs of a style suitable to straight chairs to be used in a suite or set therewith. i My invention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein,

Figure 1, shows myinvention in pers ective; Fig. 2 is a side view of a rocking chair constructed in accordance with my invention, the dotted outline showing that the back-and-back-leg structure is adapted for a chair of the straight type primarily; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the rocker-struc ture; and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views illustrating a certain brace.

In the drawings a is the usual back-andback-leg structure of an ordinary straight chair, I) is its seat, and d its front legs shown in dotted outline in-Fig. 2. e designates the rockers and f a rung-or brace connecting them in their rear portions; these parts may be of conventional form, as shown with a view to reducing the cost of manufacture and extending the applicability of the rocker structure as far as possible to various styles or designs of chairs of the simpler type.

g is an arched frame carried by each rocker and suitably affixed thereto insome permanent and substantial manner. The front portion it except for a slight reverse curve as shown in Fig. 2, which imparts strength as well as a raceful effect to the chair, is aproximately straight; at its upper end said front portion merges into the curved rear portion 71, the point of merger being a rather sharp bend y. This formation is doubly strong because of the arch shape and because the portion of the frame that is to act principally in supporting the load to be borne by the frame, to wit its front portion, extends substantially perpendicularly from the rocker to the highest point of the frame before merging into the rear portion i.

Having assembled the parts 6, f and gas shown in Fig. 3, the same are ready for combining with the back-and-back leg structure and seat of a chair of the straight type, and this is accomplished as follows: The legs of the back-and-back-leg structure having been first cut off so as to ada t it, in point in height, to use in a rocking cliair, said structure is arranged on the rocker structure as shown in Fig. 2, whereupon screws or bolts 7c or the like are employed to secure the seat to the frames 9 and the lower end portions of the rear parts i to the legs of the back-andback-leg structure. No further securing means will ordinarily be found necessary and the entire chair structure will then be extremely strong and durable.

gitudinal slot m for a bolt n and a hole 0 for a screw 1), and horizontal part q and another vertical part 1", said parts 1 and 1" being disposed at right angles to part q and adapted to take the former against the inside face of the seat frame .9 and the latter against one of the legs of said structure, While part 9 bears against the under side of the frame 8.

The holes t for the legs are first bored and then the seat frame secured to the legs by passing the bolts through the legs and seat frame and slot m of the brace and then adjusting the bolt and nut to clamp the parts together, whereupon the screw 19 is passed through the hole 0 and into the seat frame and one of the legs and another screw 1) driven through a hole to in the part 1" of the brace and into said leg.

The brace m comprises a strengthening Web as and the tangs y Which will hold' it in proper position until the bolt is properly secured.

I do not Wish to be limited to any of the details herein set forth, What I claim being:

1. In a rocking chair, the combination of the back-and-back-leg structure, the seat carried by the back-and-back-leg structure, and a rocker structure comprising the rockers, means for bracing the same with respect to each other and a one-piece arched frame seat and supporting the same, each frame i having its front portion formed as a reverse curve and its rear portion as a relatively outward curve, the lower portions of the backand-backleg structure being secured at their extremities to the lower rear extremities of said frames, substantially as described.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this fifth, day of March, 1907.

ALBERT ANNER, JR.

Witnesses:

ALFRED GARTNER, C. MERGER. 

